Today I Lived

Today I . . .

Heard about cookie butter for the second time but have yet to actually see the food product.

Forgot to bring the laundry in again after two days of rain showers.  I think I saw a towel in the lawn but I just don’t want to walk over there and deal with it.

Put off making applesauce with my bushel of apples for yet another day.

Failed to have the girls clean their bedroom.

Noticed mold growing on a book on our shelf.  (This is the dampest house ever!)

Wept with my husband over the heavy burden we feel to parent these sons and daughters tenderly and the mess-up job we feel like we do some days.

Procrastinated too long on several commitments I had made.

Ate a bowl of guacamole with chips followed by a Hershey bar I found stashed on the top shelf of our fridge – all after 10:30 at night.

Accepted a request from my seven year old son to cuddle on the bed, thereby overcooking a portion of our family’s dinner.  (I still think that’s a fair trade.)

Allowed my children to shower outside with the garden hose and a bar of soap.

Realized that the bar of soap is still in the yard tonight.

Pretended to make our bed by tossing the comforter over the balled up sheet at the foot of the bed.

Laughed with my daughters, hugged my sons, scratched backs, cleaned plates, prepared meals, taught school, read books with my children, folded laundry, stepped on matchbox cars, sat on my front porch, made lists, sent e-mails.

Today I . . .

was alive.